"Under an LNP government this is a safer state, it's a stronger state, it is a better place to do business, to work, to raise your family," he said, adding that 44,000 new jobs had been created.

Mr Newman said his party had worked hard to fix the budget after Labor left the state $80 billion in the red.

"We have stabilised the state's finances, we have stabilised the financial position and next year for the first time in a decade this state will turn a surplus budget," he said.

Queensland's forecast economic growth put the state first equal with NSW as the fastest-growing state economy, he said.

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The premier also took another jab at a Palmer United Party-initiated Senate inquiry into the conduct of his government, calling it a costly witch-hunt.

Mr Newman pointed to his government's 30-year Queensland Plan as a guide to where the LNP wanted to take the state.

He said the regions played an important role in growing the economy, and promised to inject millions into Townsville to help revitalise its city centre.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk used a meeting with Labor candidates in Brisbane to launch a social media campaign promoting the party's policy to ban the dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

"We need to be united, we need to be out there - doorknocking, listening to Queenslanders, listening to families because this government is incapable of listening to anyone except themselves," she said.

"Over the next four months our job out there is to make sure that our young people have hope and they have opportunity."